On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:14:27 am Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:32:35PM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
> > Hello sluggers,
> >
> > Is anyone else getting these spam/informational emails directed to a
> > slug- track address and showing up on my mailing list? Just started a
> > couple of days
> > ago. Two or three a day.
>
> I've contacted NKS about this. Apparently, someone is sending spam to
> select members of this list, masqueraded as list emails. They are not
> list emails, but they may look, to some extent, like them. This would be
> relatively easy to do-- some spammer signs up for the list, collects
> addresses as they post or reply, and then gets off the list.
>
> One way you know they aren't from the actual list is that you're getting
> more than one of these emails. The first time I saw someone actually
> spamming the list, I would knock them off the list. End of story. And I
> haven't seen this happen. One way I know this isn't happening is that
> *I'm* not getting these emails. I only see them when they bounce from
> your ISPs.
>
> The problem is that some ISPs, noticing these spam emails apparently
> coming from our listserv, are now blocking all email from NKS list
> servers, in particular Verizon and gte.net. Hopefully, NKS will handle
> this shortly.
>
> Paul
Thanks Paul,
Glad to hear you know about it. Hopefully NKS can do something.
Bob S
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